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Then on to explore and mine the ridiculously mineral rich solar system we live in.
Which incredible invention would be best for mankind..?
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Then on to explore and mine the ridiculously mineral rich solar system we live in.
#6 assuming the following:
- we can reverse engineer it to work with machinery/non-human stuff (the fact that it can transport cloth implies that other non-human items can be transported also)
- we can reverse engineer it to allow instant reuse and/or greater distance
- the "no cost" includes no power cost or at worst a "reasonable" power cost
Also, if you require "recovery" time then it IS damaging in some form. If you had said the teleporter requires an hour to recharge/whatever then it would make more sense.
The other options are pointless for various reasons.
- we can reverse engineer it to work with machinery/non-human stuff (the fact that it can transport cloth implies that other non-human items can be transported also)
- we can reverse engineer it to allow instant reuse and/or greater distance
- the "no cost" includes no power cost or at worst a "reasonable" power cost
Also, if you require "recovery" time then it IS damaging in some form. If you had said the teleporter requires an hour to recharge/whatever then it would make more sense.
The other options are pointless for various reasons.
And other solar systems, we could then safely and cheapily cart nukes into space that would let us travel to other solar systems in ~20years, certainly low enough for probes and possibly for human exploration, depending where the nearest inhabitable planet was and possible generation ships.
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They all have their problems..... theres only one good one that I can see and it's point 9.
World War 3.
Regardless of indisputable proof whoever the losers were would never accept it anyway and would attempt to wipe out anyone who disagrees with them.
My choice would be the oil substitute, it may do double the environmental damage, but just allowing any nation to produce it would readdress poverty and decrease strife across the globe, it would have a huge impact on the current economic supremacy of certain nations and foreign policies globally.
It would also free up resources for research and other things, allowing us to eventually move away from fossil fuels entirely.
I would have chosen 6) if it wasn't for the hour delay between uses, if you could constantly teleport over and over you would have teleporting stations set up across the globe, go on holiday constantly bouncing between the 10 mile gapped teleporters to australia in no time at all. Buying things off the internet would be awesome as well, I want a new graphics card, OcUK whack it down the teleporter and into my own personal teleporter 
hello new graphics card. But the hour delay makes it suck.
hello new graphics card. But the hour delay makes it suck.
What if the evidence is that they're all right?
It would depend on whether you wanted to extend life (bad imo) or to make life easier/more pleasureable.
Extending life in an already over populated world could be disastrous. In the purest sense, diseases, famine, war etc can help to keep populations under control, in itself making life more pleasureable for those left. Imagine a world where nobody dies, how long would it be before that itself created more problems than it solved.
With that in mind I don't know which option I would choose
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Extending life in an already over populated world could be disastrous. In the purest sense, diseases, famine, war etc can help to keep populations under control, in itself making life more pleasureable for those left. Imagine a world where nobody dies, how long would it be before that itself created more problems than it solved.
With that in mind I don't know which option I would choose
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what do you do at the end?
mass unemployment factories shutting down, no "normal" factories left because they could not compete with the less efficient i e nergy terms but cheaper in mass production terms ones.
at the end of the 30 years you'd be ****ed
changeover to maintenance and normal manufacture. You might even be able to carry on, if you build enough alternative energy sources.
It's not as if industry at the moment would suddenly cease. We would just have a big boom for 30 years and if dealt with correctly by government, much longer than that.
Complex answer!
As I stated, the overpopulation issue is the biggest threat to mankind (in my opinion) and as such The Producer (number 8) would be the greatest addition to mankind as it would mean that we have much more food to feed this growing population and use the by products of this to provide people with the neccesities.
Britboy, great thread.
As I stated, the overpopulation issue is the biggest threat to mankind (in my opinion) and as such The Producer (number 8) would be the greatest addition to mankind as it would mean that we have much more food to feed this growing population and use the by products of this to provide people with the neccesities.
Britboy, great thread.
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That wouldn't matter, then they would fight for supremacy instead.
Humans conflict, there isn't much we can do about it. Even great education doesn't stop it, just look at the militant Atheists, do you think they will put down their hatred simply because they were wrong, they can't even be civil.
No one would run a current style production facility, if they could use one of these one you talk off that produce more but at a higher energy cost, as they would not be able to compete.
so by the end of 30 years there would be none left.
But you know the precise end so would be reinstated. Or you produce enough alternative energy. It's not like other examples when you dondon't know the end date or how to replace it. You really think businesses would allow them self to go bankrupt overnight?